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When you have opened a file, you can of course move around in it with the cursor. The +cursor keys and PgUp, PgDn do what you'd expect. Home and End jump to the beginning and end of the line. (In older versions, +they would actually jump to the beginning and end of the buffer.) However, there are also +Control and Meta (Alt) +key combos that move the cursor around. Because you do not need to move your hands to +another part of the keyboard for these, they are much quicker once you get used to them. +The most important such commands are listed in Table 17-1.

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Table 17-1. Basic Emacs Editing Commands

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C-b go one character back
C-f go one character forward
C-n go one line down
C-p go one line up
C-a go to the beginning of the line
C-e go to the end of the line
M-b go one word back
M-f go one word forward
M-} go one paragraph forward
M-{ go one paragraph backward
M-a go one sentence backward
M-e go one sentence forward
C-d delete the character under the cursor
M-d delete until the end of the current word
C-v go down one screen (i.e., PgDn)
M-v go up one screen (i.e., PgUp)
M-< go to the beginning of the buffer
M-> go to the end of the buffer
C-_ undo the last change (can be repeated); note that you actually have to type Shift+Control+hyphen for +this.
C-k delete to end of line
C-s forward search
C-r backward search
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Note that many Meta commands are parallel to the Control commands except that they operate on larger units: while C-f goes forward one character, M-f goes forward an entire word, etc.

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Also note that M-< and M-> require you to type Shift+Alt+comma and Shift+Alt+dot +respectively, since < and > are on Shift+comma and Shift+dot. (Unless of course you have a different keyboard layout from the +standard US layout.)

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Note that C-k deletes (kills, as it is +commonly called) all the text after the cursor to the end of the line, but doesn't delete +the line itself (i.e., it doesn't delete the final newline). It only deletes the line if +there was no text after the cursor. In other words, in order to delete a complete line, +you have to put the cursor at the beginning of the line, and then hit C-k twice: once to delete the text on the line, +once to delete the line itself.

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